# Date: October 11, 1914

Once war began, the proletariat must direct greater
forces against the aggressors\
HI
Vaillant's error is not an error of principle!!
Locking the door is a policy of national] exclus[ive-
ness]...
The Lug[ano] resol[ution] ought to have said who the
violators of peace are!!
He repeats commonplaces, — but not a c o n c r e [ t e ]
answer!!
(not an S.D. position)
2)
Swis[s] social[ists] seem to be leaning toward syndic-
alism....
Voices:
The m[ain] s[ource] of crisis— [the] right to national] exist-
ence[;] if one renounces it: it's all the same to him...
This is syndicalism, if it's all the same to the proletar[iat]....
"Practical [slogans]" are needed, but in... Lugano they were not given
((close the shutters — this is not inter[national] solidarity))
One cannot make out who is the defender...
| 2 pe[ople] are held by the throat ||
Our Rus[sian] affairs?
With pride, that in the State] D[uma] alone we were correct: did not
vote for military] cred[its]. 31
A tsar-m[onarc]h[ical] army cannot be victorious

| it was necessary to point out
we do not give credits to thieves etc. etc.]
When did they leave?
Unclear.
((would have needed to leave more distinctly))
So that it * came out beautiful does not suit the opportun[ists] (Rus[sian]
S.D. is a 5-year-old girl who will more easily preserve inno[cence] than
an adult lady).32

NOTES ON PLEKHANOV'S REPORT
* — Russian social-democracy. Ed.
Lenin Collection XIV

* NOTES ON THE SPEECH ON G. V. PLEKHANOV'S REPORT.
1) follow...* the Germans
2) our resolution] for Lugano
3) middle line
synd[ical defense of the] fatherland
ism
5) Fr[ance] is attacked — defend the homeland...
* RECORD OF G. V. PLEKHANOV'S CONCLUDING REMARKS

Pl[ekh]an[ov]:
I am forced to leave Loz[anne], dissatisf[ied] by comrade Le-
nin.

Much earlier comrade Hervé expressed these thoughts (begründen **
— no time)..33
— Hervé of the first manner...34
And one ought to refer not to Hervé, but to Marx

An incorrect reference to the claim that workers do not h a v e [a]
fatherland.
I will not decree (as Lenin did), but will explain:
| a note by M[arx] in Hegel 35
"Every people has the right to exist"... M[arx]
He preached this.
Standing on this p o i n t o f v i e w, one must recognize that every
people has the right (and is obligated) to defend itself.
If the vanguard party refuses to defend the people, it will
lose all influence over its people and become a utopia.
One must distinguish the bourgeois] and proleta[rian] point of view:
uphold] "truth and justice]" in international] relations.
It is an error to say that work[ers] do not have a fatherland. This
means abandoning the point of view of international] social[ism], you will
become national[ist]. You will be utopian and will not be able to partici-
pate] in the political] life of your nation.
Once war began, we m[ust] be able to discern who***

* One word could not be made out. Ed.
** — to ground/substantiate. Ed.
*** The word "who" was written by Lenin over a previously written word
"how". Ed.